Question

In Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Freder hallucinates a machine overheating as slaves march into the mouth of this deity. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Canaanite fire god whose idols were built in and around a massive furnace. Leviticus denounces child sacrifice to this god at the Tophet.
ANSWER: Moloch [or Molech]
[10h] Greco-Roman sources claim Carthaginian child sacrifice was instead to this deity who they identified with Cronus. This chief god of Carthage and partner of Tanit had a name shared by Semitic gods identified in Christian eschatology as Beezelbub.
ANSWER: Ba’al Hammon [or Baʿal Karnaim; prompt on Ba’al]
[10e] Greek depictions of metallic Moloch idols with the head of this animal may have been inspired by a “brazen” torture device shaped like one of these animals. The minotaur is half-human half-this animal.
ANSWER: bull [accept the brazen bull; prompt on cows]
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RITCornell MATLAB001010
Cornell RSyracuse+Rochester001010